Summary: Does this even need a synopsis any more… the continuing Madhouse x Marvel project trend…

The story revolves around Blade, a “Daywalker” vampire hunter who was born with vampire and human blood after a vampire attacked his mother. While visiting Japan on a mission, Blade tracks down Deacon Frost, the vampire who killed his mother. Blade confronts “Existence,” a mysterious organization composed of vampires modified by Frost.

of all the titles they could of done, why the lame ass vampire with the mommy complex? i dont know.. a dark/gritty ghost rider story or even a adult orientated spiderman series, something thats not kiddy-fied and ruined for fox or disney.

I’d watch a D.C. anime like Superman or a Batman series (Gotham Knight was sweet), or some cool psych/scifi featuring Martian Manhunter or Green Lantern or something, but I just do not like Marvel characters, mostly because they’re all mutants/science accidents and not natural born aliens or magic like D.C. heroes are.

the X-Men one so far was the best one as the others like Iron Man & Wolverine was gutter trash. If this 1 sucks all I’ll I have to say is they took 2 steps back 1 step forward, another step back & then fell off committing Massive Suicide.

dropped as fast as i can, this is another marvel-sucks-anime-wannabe, this is not your place man, go to cartoon instead, damn now i really hate marvel more,
first wolverine, x-man, iron man, and now blade, what next? spiderman?green lantern? batman? come on, this is anime bro, you just destroying anime reputation, geez..
DEFINITELY DROP!

I don’t think most of the people who said X-Men was bad actually watched it. If you didn’t watch the entire thing you really couldn’t comment on it. The other 2 series before that should of never of been created, because it just put out a bad image on anything Marvel puts out for anime. I really do regret watching Iron Man & Wolverine, since it was a huge waste of pc space & time. You would of really thought those 2 shows would of had a great Climax turnaround smh If you watched X-Men you would have noticed that the characters were completely different from the Wolverine series. I hope Blade doesn’t turn sour during the series. Honestly, American Cartoons shouldn’t try to be Animated; it just doesn’t fit the genre. Just give it english voices and store it in another category of Cartoon. No matter how much you try and change it it still turns out as a regular american cartoon but now animated.

Okay, so after watching it, I can tell it’s nothing like BLADE. The atmosphere is lame and the animation is bad. Action scenes are missing a link. Like something is gonna happen and then you see a black screen. Next thing you see, everything is over and you didn’t see what happened. WTF?

I can’t believe there is sooo much whine about a little thing as a Marvel adaptation when there are so many japanese made animes that are worse than shit coming out year after year, at least the Marvel adaptations aren’t filled with senseless fan-service and child pornography (loli crap).

Well the things that are wrong with this are the same things that are wrong with all the movie/series adaptations of Blade.

1) Vampires die too easily. These are the high forms of undead. They shouldn’t be pushovers, and a HUMAN shouldn’t just kill masses of them hand to hand. They are supposed to be stronger, faster and have more acute sense than a human by far. Even the weakest ones.

2) Blade himself is too strong/fast in relation to them. He doesn’t trade blows…just cuts them down like they are straw dummies. He is supposed to have equivalent power to them…not above average.

3)How the hell does someone transform into a vampire from one bite that doesn’t even kill them? It took like…2 minutes tops. It’s supposed to take a whole frigging day and night and the person has to be right on the verge of death.

I really thought they would continue to improve after the X-Men turned out to be pretty decent.

o and all of the people that are spreading hate haven’t even watched it, or watched it with such a bias that they didn’t even want to give it a chance, people just need to either watch it and comment on why they did or didn’t like it

Or not fking bash it at all
and slashmans reasons for not liking it are his opinion but his opinion is shit :), its a whole nother fking world in a whole fking nother dimension in a whole fking nother magazine/comic book than anything in the anime verses they have the Right to portray vampires and blade as they want to maybe in that world Vampires Aren’t such a superior fking undead species or what ever and what not. Maybe there chicken fodder Are u the fking Artist or story writer? I think fucking not. I shit u not what some of u say while i lurk makes me laugh

You might take a look further up and see that I was one of the people stating that the anime should be given a chance.

My points are based on reason and logic(well as much as can be applied to a fictional, horror-inspired world).

A normal human blazes through vampires like they were mannequins and they don’t even have time to react(you know…the things that are faster, stronger and have sharper senses than us).

I’m not talking about Blade here either. But if they’re that easy to kill…then they aren’t an actual threat to humanity.

Also…from both the series, the movies and the comics…turning into a vampire doesn’t take minutes…it takes a day or two and the vampire has to drain the person to the point of death.

Now maybe Frost is some kind of exceptional vamp with a bite that kills and transforms all in one go…but then Blade’s mother would never have survived to have a baby and die right before she gave birth.

Were any of these marvel anime’s actually popular with the japanese people they were aimed at? I wonder if they’re just shitty adaptations that nobody liked, or if it’s just one of those cultural things where the japanese like them and we think they’re shit.

Screw all of the hate this series is getting without people giving it a chance I men really? Not even gonna watch the first episode? Lmao wow and to address some concerns about the way things happened in this anime for one thing blade is at the level of not your ordinary vampire but of that of a higher clas meaning deacon frost since blade has frosts dna inside of him that’s like being a demi god while the others are like bastard step children so yes he can just mow them down like a weed whacker on a good Sunday lawn and about the guy turning into a vampire exceptionally quick uh hello common sense deacon has 4 count em 4 fangs which in turn would drain a person ridiculously fast and since he’s a higher class vampire his “thirst” would be higher and his ability to tranform people would be crazy quick and lastly if he’s this powerful how come blades mother didn’t transform.. well here’s my guess he only drained her right to the brink of death and the birth killed her meaning her body simply didn’t have the resources it needed to undergo the transformation..lack of blood and the body diverting resources to the baby it was nurturing and so the birth of a half breed killed her plain and simple :-)but that’s just what I think I also have another theory about his mom but I won’t get into it oh and happy indipendence day if your from america like me fuck yeah!

Show wasn’t that bad. A little cliche but not bad. Kind of reminded me of how they created Spawn the Animated Series. Also, if it looks like he is killing the Vampires way too easy, well maybe it’s because it’s called Mixed Martial Arts and Sensory Training. Kind of like real life where they are real athletes who can beat the tar out of your average Donna or Don, because they spent their whole life training, toning, and honing their skills. Still there are other stronger Vamps he might come across, like you’ve just seen with his fight with Deacon Frost. I’ll watch it since it’s interesting, but I really don’t see this as an anime but just Animated Like How Spawn was Animated but still was English dubbed. You can tell the difference from something that his just became Animated & the anime we usually watch. It has a Hellsing feel to it, but Hellsing was on a completely different & higher level. Watch it. You might Enjoy it or Not.

My problems with the show aren’t that it’s not ‘western’ enough. Frankly, anyone thinking that an anime should be like a Saturday morning cartoon just because it’s based on an originally American work is stupid. It’s an anime version.

If the show picks up and gets better, I’ll stick with it. Especially if it explains how a normal human woman cuts her way through a nightclub full of vampires(although I suspect it won’t).

Heck even mickey mouse himself has moved on into Kingdom Hearts for fucks sake. If that is not a sign that the animation era in america died then i don’t know what is.

So excuse us for stating the obvious when we don’t want hollywood to stretch it’s filthy hands into our anime plaza, we already have enough cash makers as it is.

How about your american directors get off their lazy asses and stop using 3D & politics to cover up for their lack of inspiration? Maybe i wouldn’t scoff the next time i see “Peter Pan Lineage (remake 67)”

Whether you like it or not America’s reputation with media in general especially animation IS IN THE TOILET. BROKE THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL. SHOT THE HORSE TO THE MOON.

“Weaboos, Weaboos, Weaboos.” All i hear is a tart hiding behind a social sigma in order to justify his agenda of throwing insults around. You’re probably one of those bastards that burn manga comics at school because we refuse to comply to your social standards.

i love how people are hating on this because its american. i agree it sucks. but really? if one of the comic book writers actually wrote the plot, it would be better. iron man wouldnt tie himself down to one woman. wolverine wouldnt be a freaking wuss. and the x-men for some reason wouldnt be overly sensitive to everything.

Continuity in comics is one of the most laughable concepts I can think of. Marvel and DC fluctuate so much in their writing, its like a sine wave.

In one comic, Gladiator takes down both the X-Men and Fantastic 4 together, and in another he gets fought to a draw by Nova.

In one comic, Venom is handing Spiderman his ass and in yet another Spiderman fights and almost manages to beat Firelord(yeah…the Galactian Herald).

In one comic, Doctor Doom is taking on the Avengers and Fantastic 4 together and in another he gets beat by Squirrel Girl.

To add to that confusion, almost every character has gone through personality changes and alterations in their motives and emotions based on whoever is writing the comic at the time.

So I don’t actually agree that if one of the comic book writers wrote the plot that it would necessarily be better. The characters don’t have to match a particular concept exactly. And to be honest, if Marvel was going for an American take on this…they wouldn’t have handed it to a Japanese animator to make.

The things I don’t like about the series are, in fact, the things that the Americans did to it that the Japanese animators left in.

I liked the X-Men exactly because it didn’t feel like a carbon copy of the ‘American Version’. It felt like an anime adaptation which very closely stuck to concepts from the source material and made them its own.

THE USUAL BUTTHURT SHIT ON ANIMETAKE.
WHENEVER SOMEONE STATES FACT, GET BUTTHURT POST LONGPOST SHIT THAT DOESN’T EVEN CHANGE ANYTHING BUT LEAVES MORE CRAP ABOUT HOW THEY FORCE THEIR OPINION IS BTTER THAN ANYONE ELSE.

I’ll also add, marvel animated movies have been good so far, same for DC. The old American Xmen series, at least the one from the 90’s, was excellent to me. The newer teen ones are pretty good for the most part too, again the same for DC ones. The Japanese versions just aren’t that great, but it was the same for transformers and the like too back in the day if you ever saw those =-)

It seems from now on Midnight-Sons will release Blade in 480p which is alright with me since it a bad upscale like the rest of the marvel anime that have aired.
Also ep 1v2 and 2 have been released awhile back!

The big problem with turning Marvel comics into anime is most have already been produced as cartoons (with animeish animation). Following the standard hero feel that most successful shows go with. Anime tends to go through a mutation to cater to anime fans, this is where the anime companies failed… but this could get long…

Well call me Bad Otaku but i see no problem with Marvel turn to Anime… yeah there are some bad flaws.. But well this is MADHOUSE dude that MADHOUSE!! i’m hardcore action anime fan, as long there are action ini it.. BRING IT ON SUCKER!!!!